Word: karle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Artist Georges Braque for The Yellow Cloth, a cubist design of unusual beauty which Pittsburghers snooted for being "abstract" (TIME, Oct. 25). Last week's opening night audience showed no such alarm over the 36th International first prize winner, The Wind (see cut), by German Karl Ilofer. Among critics it was a popular award. Long regarded as one of the most profound followers of Cézanne, 60-year-old Karl Hofer was a venerated teacher at the Berlin Academy until the Nazis ousted him. Grim, uneasy and intense as his great French master, he works hard...
...collection in the show. Augmented by eight Austrian painters this year, the German section got its drama from the fact that almost half the artists included are on the Nazi undesirable list. Some have begun to paint ostentatiously pretty pictures to atone for past sins, others are allowed, like Karl Hofer, to paint as they please but not to exhibit in Germany. Being a work of art, Hofer's close-knit painting of two defenseless figures in an arbitrary swirl of blue drapery had more than one meaning, but it might certainly refer to the ill wind faced...
Krenek, who was conductor and stage director of the State Opera Houses in Wiesbaden and Kassel, Germany, has composed operas, symphonies, piano and chamber music, and songs. He is known especially for his operas "Johny Spielt auf," and "Karl...
...been rivaled in recent years by at least two other U.S. orchestras,* it has held its place fairly steadily for more than half a century. Only once in its history did it fall behind the front rank, and that was when its greatest conductor, razor-faced, German-born Karl Muck, was charged with espionage by New England patrioteers and interned during the World...
Thus intoned California's Bishop Edward Lambe Parsons, while he and 13 other Episcopal bishops, with light touches of their hands on a bowed head, made a bishop of Dr. Karl Morgan Block, 52, elected last spring to be bishop coadjutor of California. Bishop Parsons, a great but aging liberal of the Episcopal Church, had announced his intention to retire at 70 this winter, after an episcopate of 20 years, will be succeeded by Bishop Block. Chubby-chinned, Washington-born Dr. Block, who admits to being "outrageously vigorous," was for 13 years rector of St. Michael & St. George...